From: Axel Etzold <AEtzold@...>
Date: 2008-10-26T03:20:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Open a MS Excel file from within Ruby


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> Datum: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 02:24:53 +0900
> Von: RichardOnRails <RichardDummyMailbox58407@uscomputergurus.com>
> An: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
> Betreff: Open a MS Excel file from within Ruby

> Hi.
> 
> I'm writing a small Ruby pgm to demonstrate that FasterCVS is a good
> way to handle CSV data.
> 
> I put up a small CSV file and demonstrated the FasterCSV aspect.  I'd
> like to precede that step by automatically bringing up the CSV file in
> Excel. (I know I could bring it up manually, but I'd like a self-
> contained demo for a computer-illiterate person.)
> 
> I've got "fn" set to a string which is the fully qualified name of the
> CSV file.  I concocted the (failing) command:
> 
> SystemCommand.start("Excel", fn)
> 
> based on my interpretation of the RDoc for Shell::SystemCommand.  I
> took a wild stabs to no avail at adding "require 'system'" and
> "require 'shel'"
> 
> I'm running:
> ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24 patchlevel 111) [i386-mswin32]
> WinXP-Pro/SP3
> 
> TIA,
> Richard

Dear Richard,

look here:

http://rubyonwindows.blogspot.com/2007/04/ruby-win32ole-inspecting-objects.html

Best regards,

Axel
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